Hey guys, welcome back to EngVid. My name
is Benjamin, your teacher for today. Today we're going to be looking at some phrasal
verbs. What's a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb looks a bit like this. It's a couple of different
words that when you put them together, act as like a verb phrase for an action. Okay?
And the phrasal verbs we're going to be looking at today, concern clothes, how you put clothes
on, what you do with them, that kind of thing, places to describe places and people, so quite
functional stuff that will add a little bit of color, a little bit of flavor to your language...
You ready to go? Let's go. First one to do with clothes -- "to slip on". Now, what I'm
thinking of here is a banana skin that I slip on and I fall over. Ow, that hurt. But if
you slip on some clothes, you kind of just sort of putting it on a bit like you're almost
sort of falling over. "Ah, I'm just gonna slip something on." Yep. I'm not going doing
my tie in the mirror. Do my cufflinks. No, no, I'm just slipping it on. Nice and easily.
"To button up." Now that little round thing there is a button. If you button up, you are
doing the buttons up maybe all the buttons on your shirt. It also has another meaning
this if you say oh button up, it means like Oh, come on, suit yourself out. Come on. You
don't need to be annoyed or upset. Come on. You can you can do this. Okay, so but generally
speaking button up means to tighten the buttons on your clothes. "To wrap up warm." So, if
we're talking about food, what is a wrap? Well, it's it's something that kind of been
like rolled together, isn't it? Yep. You've got your bit of bread. You put some hummus
and some lettuce and whatever tomatoes and some cold meat or something... to wrap its
head this. So if you are wrapping up? Yeah, you're going to put a scarf on a hat on some
gloves on a nice warm jacket gets about to be sort of Bonfire Night over here. So going
out in the cold weather this time of year. You need to wrap up warm. Otherwise you're
going to get cold. Wrap up warm. I hope I get to go to Bonfire Night. I might be making
more videos for you. But if you go out then you wrap up warm. Okay, "freshen up". Now,
I was watching the other day Paddington, the movie with my son, and Paddington the bear
has just arrived at the Brown household in London. And they say to him, you know, Paddington
if you want to go and freshen up, feel free. And Paddington's like, "freshen up what is
freshen up?" he goes up to the bathroom. And he starts getting the toothbrushes and shoving
them in his ear. And then the toilet he sort of pulls the chain and then sort of flies
up. And then the water starts going everywhere. And before too long. Mr. Brown opens the door.
And he flies down and a bath down the down the stairway... that's not typically freshening
up, but I loved Paddington's version of it. Freshen up. So what is this? This is like
diving into some snow? There's a there's a sort of image of like going into something
cold to wake up, like splashing some water on your face to freshen up. Maybe you've had
a long journey. And you arrive at your friend's house and they say "Oh, do you want to just
freshen up for a moment?" You're like, "Huh, what does that mean?" Like? Is it a shower?
Is it washing your face? The idea is you go to the bathroom, and there's some sort of
cleaning involved and you come back and you feel a little bit better. The general idea:
"freshen up". If you forget that after I've spoken about it for so long I'm going to be
really upset. Okay, "to take something back". Right. Well, this morning I went clothes shopping
Because I'm making lots of videos at the moment, and you might have noticed, but I'm often
wearing different clothes. And actually, rather cheekily, I've still got the label in this
shirt. So if tonight when I get home, I'm like, you know what? This dark red, it's not
doing it for me. I'm going to take this back. So if you take something back, it's quite
itchy, that label actually. You take something back, you don't like it, and you're asking
for a refund or a return. I get along really well at the shop. They're really nice to me.
I do buy stuff as well. I'm not totally cheeky, don't worry. "To take something up." Now,
if I go into my favorite shop in Toronto, and I find this lovely pair of trousers, but
they're just a bit too long. I might say to them, do you think you might be able to take
this up a bit. So what you're doing is, imagine this is my leg. You can't really see my leg
I've got I've got long legs. If you take it up, you're just sort of pulling it up a bit
to sell out of something. Now, if the shop I was going to just sold hats, and they had
a lovely orange hat, and I really want to get that orange hat. And I go there the next
day. Oh, no, the orange hat. It's not here anymore. They've sold... past participle...
They've sold out of the orange hats. How disappointing. Okay, clothes. We feeling confident about
it? Just take those words in... you should be able to remember them I am expecting 10
out of 10 in the quiz today, okay? Right: places. This is a describing phrase. If something
is run down. You know what running is? We know what down is? Put them together. What
do we have? We have a place that is uncared for. Unloved, messy, chaotic, nasty, not the
kind of place you want to be. If it's rundown, you know, there are rubbish bins sort of lying
scattered all over the floor. Yet notice I said "rubbish", "rubbish" rather than "garbage"
or "trash" because I'm English rather than American. "Littered with": if the rubbish
is all over the floor than the on the street, then the street is littered with rubbish.
But normally you wouldn't use rubbish with littered with, you would use something like
the places littered with cigarette butts. Yep. The end of a cigarette. So it's something
specific. littered with means like covered with littered with covered with something.
Okay. Right. A litter of puppies is like the, you know, when when a female dog, a b***h
has like six or seven or eight or nine or ten puppies. So a litter, there's lots of
them. The building "stuck out". So my finger is sticking through the other fingers behind
me about two miles that way. There's this really, really, really tall building in Toronto.
It sticks out. Yeah, if I look that way, once I've gone outside, I see the tall building.
Yeah, I notice it. It's very easy to see because it's different from all the other buildings.
What sets it apart is how tall it is to to set something apart. It's like, well, what
is it that's different about that building? Yep. It's the height of the building that
sets it apart. People: just as the tall building sticks out. If you stand out in the crowd,
you look different to everyone around you. And so you stick out or you stand out. Yep.
I stand out in a crowd if I am wearing my coveted orange hat. I stand out in a crowd
if I am playing the trumpet. I blend in if I am looking normal, yep, a blender, you use
it for making juice. You chuck some oranges in some bananas in some grapes, couple of
strawberries. I have blended the juice. If you blend in, it's like you become part of
all the other ingredients, other people, other life around you. "To look up to": we use the
way we look to show importance. If I look up to someone, then they are worthy of my
respect. If I look down at someone, they are not and I am trying to show that I'm more
important. So if you look up to someone, then you respect and admire, we look up to our
heroes, our role models. Who's your role model? Who's your hero? Yep, tell me you'd like someone
from history? Who do you really, really respect? "To put down." Now, sadly, our pets when they
get to the end of their lives, it's often the pet owners who have to put down the pets,
or the vet does it for you. Or "to put up with". If you put up with someone then you
accept them for all their sort of strangeness. Yep. So families have to put up with each
other. Come rain or shine. Yeah, whatever happens. Right. We've gone through each of
these in a good amount of detail. So I'm really hoping that you're going to remember them
and more importantly try and use them. You can have a go at the quiz if you'd like now,
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